Finger-ring.



C. L. DEPOLLIER.

FINGER RING.

APPLlCATlON FILED JUNE 29, 1917.

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FINGER-RING;

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 6, hit.

Application filed June 29, 1917. Serial No. 177,633.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Beit known that I, CHARLESL. DnPoL- Linn, a citizen of the United States, and residing in the borough of Brooklyn of the city of New York, county of Kings, in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Finger- Rings, of which thefollowirtg is a specification, reference being had to the accompany ing drawing, forming a part hereof.

This invention relates to multiple fingerrings in which two complete annuli, secured together at one point and held in parallel relationship by a seal or signet or setting, receive snugly between them a third annulus which is held in place between the other two annuli by friction. Such rings have had and still have somewhat of a sentimental vogue, the middle annulus being a weddingring or a pledge-ring guarded by the two outer annuli. The purpose of this invention is to improve the construction of rings of this character so as to give them not only a sentimental usefulness but a practical usefulness in the way of identification of the wearer. In accordance with the invention the middle member is an incomplete annulus and receives between its ends a pivoted member which can be turned into the plane of the middle ring member so as to be introduced between the two outer members, and may then be swung upon its pivot to a position at right angles to the plane of the middle member so as to enter the signet or bond by which the two outer members are held together. This pivoted member may be solid and may receive initials or symbols engraved upon its two faces, or it may be formed with a chamber to receive a memento such as a lock of hair, or to receive a stone. The signet or bond of the two outer members may have a continuous wall to cover and hide the pivoted member or it may have an aperture to disclose the pivoted member. The invention will be more fully explained hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawing in which it is illustrated and in which,

Figure 1 is a view of the improved ring in diametrical section.

Fig. 2 is a View of the same elevation, with three ring members concentrically arranged.

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2 but with the middle ring member drawn partly out of place and its pivoted member swung into the same plane.

Figs. 4 and 5 are vlews of the ring as seen from above in Fig. 2, but with the pivoted member swung so asto show different faces in the two v ews.

Fig. 6 is arview similar to'Fig: 1 but"- showing a. modification.

Fig; 7 is a view in: sectioniod the plane indicated by the line 77 of Fig. 6, looking in the direction of the arrows.

Fig. 8" is a view similar-to Fig. 3-but showing the modified form.

in. Figs. 1-5 this signet or bond 0 is frame- 4 like or has an open center. The middle ring member d, which is an incomplete annulus, has pivoted between its ends, as at (1', a receiver or pivoted member 6 which, in the construction shown in Figs. 1-5, is represented as a solid member and as receiving on one face an initial and on the other face a symbol. This pivoted member or receiver 6 has at its ends stops e which are adapted to engage stop shoulders a formed on the bond 0 for the purpose of holding the pivoted member 6 truly parallel with the bond 0 when the ring member cl is pressed home. It will be observed that the receiver 6 has a thickness no greater than the width of the space between the outer ring members, so that when the ring member (I has been partly withdrawn and the receiver 6 has been turned into the same plane therewith, as represented in Fig. 3, the ring member and receiver can be completely withdrawn and replaced as desired. When the ring members are in the relative positions represented in Fig. 3 the receiver e can be turned to expose one face or the other within the bond 0.

The construction shown in Figs. 610 is substantially the same as that already described including the two outer ring mem bers a and b and the middle ring member d, but the bond is shown in this instance as having a solid or continuous face and the pivoted member or receiver a is formed as a container adapted to receive a memento, such as a lock of hair. In this instance the contents of the receiver 6 are concealed at all times by the bond 0 but the middle ring member with the receiver can be withdrawn at any time by first partially withdrawing the middle member and then turning the receiver into the same plane therewith so that, having a thickness no greater than the width of the space between the two outer ring members, it may be withdrawn completely.

It will be obvious that the invention is capable of embodiment in rings of many difierent designs. It has been sought herein to illustrate such embodiments as will sutlice to exhibit the character of the invention.

I claim as my invention:

1. A finger-ring comprising two outer ring members, a bond uniting them, a middle ring member forming an incomplete annulus, and a receiver pivoted between the ends of the middle ring member.

, 2. A finger-ring comprising two outer ring members, a bond uniting them, a middle ring member forming an incomplete annulus, and a receiver pivoted between the ends of the middle ring member, the bond being formed to receive the pivoted member.

3. A finger-ring comprising two outer ring members, a bond uniting them, a middle ring member forming an incomplete annulus, and a receiver pivoted between the ends of the middle ring member, the bond being formed as a frame to receive and disclose the pivoted member.

This specification signed this th day of June A. D. 1917.

CHARLES L. DEPOLLIER.

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